Food safety awareness is at an all time high, new and emerging threats to the food supply are being recognized, and consumers are eating more and more meals outside of the home. Achieving food safety in this changing environment requires going beyond traditional training, testing, and inspectional approaches to managing risks. To improve the food safety performance of a retail or foodservice establishment, an organization with thousands of employees, you must change the way people do things. We need to better integrate food science with behavioral science and use a systems-based approach to managing food safety risk. The importance of organizational culture, human behavior, and systems thinking is well documented in the occupational safety and health fields. However, contributions to the scientific literature on these topics are noticeably absent in the field of food safety. --

Food safety awareness is at an all time high, new and emerging threats to the food supply are being recognized, and consumers are eating more and more meals outside of the home. Achieving food safety in this changing environment requires going beyond traditional training, testing, and inspectional approaches to managing risks. To improve the food safety performance of a retail or foodservice establishment, an organization with thousands of employees, you must change the way people do things. We need to better integrate food science with behavioral science and use a systems-based approach to managing food safety risk. The importance of organizational culture, human behavior, and systems thinking is well documented in the occupational safety and health fields. However, contributions to the scientific literature on these topics are noticeably absent in the field of food safety. --